Altoona / Central PA Group Instructors: Josh Irvine, MA, LPC & Adam Boguski, MDiv
Norristown Group Instructors: C. Wayne Jones, PhD & Frani Pollack, PhD
Susquehanna Group (formerly WellSpan Site) Instructor: C. Wayne Jones, PhD
The three-hour small group supervision of supervision training occurs in the afternoons following the five half-day ESFT Case Seminars at each of the three training sites. On a rotating basis, each supervisor is given 45-minutes to present a team delivering the FBMHS in-home treatment model, ESFT. Supervisors present videos of their teams doing family therapy, as well as videos of their team supervision. They obtain personalized feedback on supervising their teams, are encouraged to reflect upon their work as a supervisor and have opportunities to practice new skills in a supportive atmosphere. ESFT supervisory tools, such as the Brief FBMHS Adherence Scale, are utilized to strengthen supervisory skills in helping supervisees implement the ESFT model with fidelity.
This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations. This supervision-of-supervision series counts toward required annual supervision training hours in Family Based Mental Health Services. However, CE credit is not available.
Objectives:
As a result of participating in this 15-hour supervision-of-supervision series, supervisors will be able to:
- Support the development of supervisees’ skills needed to implement the ESFT model with fidelity.
- Establish and maintain a positive, meaningful, and effective relationship with supervisees individually and collectively.
Agenda
1:00pm-4:00pm: Objectives 1-2
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.
8:30am-12:30pm
This series is designed to demonstrate how to integrate the various components of the ESFT model and apply it with fidelity. Cases are presented by family based therapists who are more advanced in their training (third year trainees), providing opportunities for therapists at all levels of training and development to see how the model works across a wide variety of families and problems. Focus is given to ESFT case conceptualization, the facilitative posture of the therapist toward the family, the influence of child and family psychology on problems and their solutions, and the assessment of personal effectiveness in sessions. How the six core ESFT mechanisms of change are applied in sessions are highlighted, with ideas about how they can be strengthened. This seminar serves as a good place for therapists nearing capstone to present their work, receive feedback about their progress and fine tune their skills.
In the clinical cases presented, as a result of the discussions, participants will be able to:
- Create a systemic, contextual explanation of the presenting problems and use it to guide sessions.
- Explain the role of the child’s lagging skills and/or psychology in the family’s negative interactional cycle
- Expand the family’s experience of the possible by setting up and facilitating pattern-transforming enactments.
This series counts toward required annual training hours in Family Based Mental Health Services, but is not currently available for CE credit.
Agenda
8:30am-12:30pm: Objectives 1-3
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Thursday, September 7th, 8:30am-4:00pm
Carolina Outreach, Durham, North Carolina
This workshop is designed for staff who serve in a clinical supervisory position in North Carolina’s Intensive In-Home Services programs that are implementing ESFT as an Evidenced Based Practice (EBP). These staff are known as Trainer-Mentors because of their critical role in working with the Center for Family Based Training in supporting in-home teams implementing the model with families, assisting in the training of new staff, and monitoring and reporting model fidelity for their programs. Since most programs are entering their second year of implementation, this workshop reviews lessons learned from the first year and provides strategies for utilizing supervision sessions more effectively to strengthen full implementation of the model.
As a result of participating in this training activity, participants will:
- Clarify the Trainer-Mentor’s role and responsibilities in supporting team implementation of ESFT with fidelity.
- Identify skill areas where teams need more support, supervision and training, based on 1st year fidelity reports and case consults.
- Describe supervision strategies for evoking stories about what therapists are actually doing in family sessions when videotapes are not available.
- Describe how to use the SupF in supervision to assess the extent to which teams are actually employing ESFT’s six core mechanisms of change in sessions.
- Demonstrate a family therapy session that meets fidelity standards
- Identify and address questions/challenges Trainer-Mentors have about the ESFT model and its implementation
Frequently Asked Questions
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This two-part, 12-hour series is offered between September 2017 and June, 2018 at Philhaven in Mt. Gretna, PA and Pennsylvania Counseling Services in Lebanon, PA.
Each part of this series runs from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, and is available for 6 CE.
This series is designed for the advanced Family Based practitioner who has completed both Foundations and Core training hours, and who have established competency in applying the operationalized Eco-Systemic Family Based treatment-model. Therapists who have completed their hours and whose supervisors deem them “capstone ready” are also eligible to participate in this series. The focus is on strengthening and fine-tuning skill-sets associated with the seven core Family Based clinical competencies across a wide variety of children and families. These skill–sets include: therapeutic leadership, collaboration and accountability, systemic conceptualization, facilitative stance, systemic intervention, identifying relational patterns, and cultivating a therapeutic alliance. Learning is fostered through viewing, analyzing and discussing within small groups videotaped therapy sessions of the therapist’s own work, that of colleagues, and demonstrations from “the best of Family Based treatment” library.
Each workshop is treated as a separate training for the purposes of attendance and evaluation. Participants sign in and out of each session, then evaluate the specific session, and receive a CE certificate for that specific session. Participants in this series only receive CE credit for the sessions they attended.
Part 1 Learning Objectives:
- Review the core principles of the ESFT model
- Describe and identify the skills involved in creating a therapeutic alliance
- Describe and identify the skill involved in establishing family buy-in to treatment goals
- Describe and identify the skill involved in creating a collaborative relationship
- Describe the Brief Self-Monitoring Scale
- Objectively and accurately analyze personal work related to the first three core competencies using the Brief Self-Monitoring Scale
Part 2 Learning Objectives:
- Describe and identify the skills involved in creating a relational frame
- Describe and identify the skills involved in maintaining a calm, emotionally regulated therapeutic environment
- Describe and identify skills involved in implementing in-session interventions that foster more functional family relationships
- Describe the FBMHS Adherence Scale and how to use it
- Objectively and accurately assess personal work related to the last three core competencies using the Brief Self-Monitoring Scale
- Objectively assess effectiveness of in-session interventions
Frequently Asked Questions
Visit our FBMHS Policies & FAQs for additional information regarding the CFBT online learning center, accommodations for disabilities, reporting problems with the course, instructions for viewing webinars, etc.
